Prof. Milica Popovic received her PhD at Norwestern University (EE, 2001). Since 2001, she has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University, where she currently holds associate professorship. She teaches courses on electromagnetic fields, electrical measurements and antennas and propagation. Her research revolves, in large part, around biomedical applications of electromagnetic theory. In particular, she and her team are striving to develop a novel breast tissue monitor based on low-power microwave emissions. The goal of this exciting work is to provide an affordable, safe and comfortable tool, which can complement current technologies used for breast cancer detection. Prof. Popovic’s other interests include: antenna design for wearable devices and microwave tissue properties and high-field MRI. Prof. Popovic is a Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation, a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario. Since October 2018, she is serving as the Chair of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Montreal Chapter.

Lena Kranold received the B.Eng. degree in Technology Management and Marketing from the University of Applied Sciences Kiel, Germany, in 2013, and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany, in 2015. She has received a prestigious scholarship of the Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft e. V. (Foundation of German Business) from 2013 to 2015. Currently, she is pursuing the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where she received the McGill Engineering Doctoral Award (2016-2018), the STARaCom Collaborative Grant Supplement (2019-2020) and the STARaCom Scholarship (2020-2021). From 2017-2018, Lena was the treasurer of the IEEE Montreal Women in Engineering Affinity Group, and since 2019, she is serving as Vice-Chair of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Montreal Chapter. Her current research interests are in the fields of applied and computational electromagnetics. She is involved in the design of a wearable system for breast health monitoring, including RF radar, antenna and antenna array design, developing a prototype system for microwave breast screening, and conducting clinical trials.

Leonardo received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with double major in Energy Systems as well as Electronics and Computers in 2013 and his M.Sc. in Metrology with focus in Sensors and Instrumentation in 2016, both from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil. His main field of academic research has been the use of electromagnetic measurements for biomedical applications. He is a proud recipient of the McGill Engineering Doctoral Award (MEDA) for 2018-2020.

Milad received both his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Telecommunication at University of Tehran, Iran, in 2017 and 2020 respectively. His current research at McGill mainly pivots around improving the current time-domain breast screening prototype. His past experiences comprise of microwave system design, antenna design and fabrication and array signal processing for radar systems. He has done his thesis on radar image processing and direction finding for mmWave radar sensors.